Aug 10, 2012

UEFI Secure Boot and openSUSE

UEFI Secure Boot is a feature that is coming soon with new PCs. Traditional BIOS booting is getting replaced now with UEFI and now
hardware vendors are going - following requirements from Windows 8 - to
use UEFI for booting and enable UEFI Secure Boot. This cases a number of problems and challenges for Open Source users.

My colleagues Vojtech Pavlik and Olaf Kirch have been looking into what UEFI Secure Boot is, what their effect on SUSE and openSUSE is and they propose a solution to handle it.
They have written three blog posts explaing SUSE's approach to secure boot: